Klaus Schuch is the business and research manager at one of the largest non-university social-scientific research institutes in Austria, the ZSI – Centre for Social Innovation.

Before joining the ZSI, he worked as research assistant at the Vienna University for Business Administration and Economics. Later he established the branch office of the Austrian Institute of East- and Southeast European Studies in Sofia, Bulgaria. For more than five years, he was the head of the unit for international RTD co-operation at the Bureau for International Research and Technology (BIT). In this capacity he also acted as Austrian National Contact Point for the international S&T programs of the European Commission.

Schuch holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of Vienna. He is a specialist in international S&T policies.

• R&D Cooperation with the West Balkan Countries—A White Spot on the ERA Map? (December 7, 2004)